Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices Acts Amendment Act of 1954 (3 Eliz Ii No. 46) (Qld)

440 SUGAR. Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices, Etc., Act. 3 E liz . II. No. 46, SUGAR. 3 N E o l . iz 4 . 6I. I. An Act to Amend “ The Regulation of Sugar Oane T he R egulation Prices Acts, 1915 to 1951,” in certain of S ugar C ane P rices A cts particulars. A mendment A ct of [A ssented to 10 th D ecember , 1954.] 1954. B E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— Short title. Principal Act. Collective title. 1. (1.) This Act may be cited as “ The Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices Acts Amendment Act of 1954.” (2.) *“ The Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices Acts, 1915 to 1951,” are in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3.) The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively cited as “ The Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices Acts, 1915 to 1954.” Amendment 2. Subsection two of section five of the Principal of s. 5 (2). Act is amended by inserting in the second paragraph (being the proviso to the first paragraph) thereof, after the words and figures “ section 25 a of this Act ”, the words and brackets “ (and if, in respect of the season in question, an additional quantity of sugar-cane has been determined in his case under section 6 b of this Act, that additional quantity)”. Amendment 3. Subsection two of section 6 a of the Principal of s. 6 a (2). Act is amended by repealing the words “ and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act contained the mill-owner’s obligations shall be limited accordingly ”. Nineswertse. d 6 . b 6 a of4t.hTehPerifnoclliopwalinAgcts, encatimonelyis: — inserted after section Mills to be “ [6 b .] (1.) Where, in respect of the year one rceruqsuhired to thousand nine hundred and fifty-four or any year sufficient thereafter, the quantity of sugar-cane grown upon all tsougmare-ectane lands assigned to a mill as determined under subsection Governor in two of section six or as agreed under section rCeoquunicreil­ ’s 25 a of this Act is insufficient to manufacture the total ments for amount of sugar for which (subject to manufacture msuagrakreftoinrg. and delivery in compliance with the proclamation or * 6 G. 5 No. 6 and amending Acts.

SUGAR 1954. Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices, Etc., Act. proclamations under *“ The Sugar Acquisition Act of 1915,” with respect to sugar the product of the season’s crop of sugar-cane of the year in question) the owner of that mill has a right to be paid a price or prices the rate or rates whereof are not prescribed by any proclamation aforesaid to be a nominal or penalty sum or sums, the Local Board or, in case of default by the Local Board for any reason, the Central Board shall determine by award quantities of sugar-cane required to supply the aforesaid insufficiency which shall be taken delivery of, crushed and paid for by that owner from those cane-growers respectively who have for supply from lands assigned to that mill sugar-cane additionally to the quantity thereof first specified in this subsection. (2.) Subsection one of this section applies subject to the following— (i.) At any time during the crushing season in respect of which an award is made under that subsection the owner of a mill bound thereby or any twenty cane-growers whose lands are assigned to that mill, or the mill suppliers’ committee constituted for that mill may apply to the Central Board for a variation of the determination made by that award, and the Central Board may vary that determination if satisfied, upon consideration of all relevant circumstances, that such variation is fair and just; (ii.) At any time before twenty-one days after the termination of the crushing season in respect of which an award is made under that subsection an application as aforesaid may (as respects sugar-cane taken delivery of and crushed pursuant to the determination made by that award) be made for a deduction from or addition to the base price of sugar-cane as fixed by award. (3.) Section 12 b of this Act shall apply with respect to the making by a mill suppliers’ committee of any application under paragraph (i.) or paragraph (ii.) of subsection two of this section. (4.) The Central Board shall not make a deduction or addition applied for as prescribed by subsection two of this section from or to the base price of sugar-cane * 6 G. 5 No. 2. 441

442 SUGAR. Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices, Etc., Act. 3 E liz . II. No. 46, taken delivery of and crushed by a mill-owner pursuant to a determination by award under subsection one of this section unless it is satisfied that by reason only of the quantity of that sugar-cane in the crushing season in question the overall economy of that mill-owner or of the cane-growers whose lands are assigned to his mill is adversely affected, but subject to being so satisfied the Central Board may make such a deduction or addition as it deems fair and just taking into consideration any factors deemed by it to be relevant. The Central Board may if it deems it fair and just order that such a deduction or addition shall be borne by or paid to the cane-growers supplying all or part of the sugar-cane taken delivery of and crushed pursuant to the determination made by the award in question under subsection one of this section. (5.) For the purposes of this section the overall economy of a mill-owner or cane-growers shall be deemed to be adversely affected when in the opinion of the Central Board the relativity of the overall economy of the mill-owner, on the one hand, and the overall economy of the cane-growers supplying such mill, on the other hand, has been changed by reason only of the mill-owner being required to crush sugar-cane pursuant to this section and has been so changed to such an extent that it is fair and just to make a deduction from or addition to the base price of all or part of such sugar-cane.”. Amendments 5. Section twenty of the Principal Act is °f s. 20 . amended— (i.) By inserting after subsection one the following subsection, namely :— “ (1 a .) A Local Board or the Central Board may in any award provide for a relative scheme of payment for sugar-cane, that is to say— (a) For payment for sugar-cane of the average quality thereof taken delivery of and crushed at the mill concerned during any week or other specified period of time at a price equal to that payable for sugar-cane of the average quality of all sugar-cane taken delivery of and crushed at that mill during the crushing season in question ; and

SUGAK. 1954. Regulation of Sugar Cane Prices, Etc., Act. (6) For the determination of the price to be paid to each and every cane-grower for sugar-cane supplied by him to the mill concerned during any week or other specified period of time according to the relation the quality of that sugar-cane bears to the quality of all sugar­ cane taken delivery of and crushed at that mill by the owner thereof during that week or, as the case may be, other specified period of time.” ; (ii.) By inserting in subsection six, after the words “ during the year then last past ”, the words “or by the mill suppliers’ committee constituted for the mill in respect of which the award is made”, and by adding to that subsection the words “ and that section 12 b of this Act shall apply with respect to such an application by a mill suppliers’ committee ” ; (iii.) By repealing subsection (6 a ) and inserting, in lieu of that repealed subsection, the following subsection, namely :— “ (6 a .) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section— (a) Upon an application made, at any time within twenty-one days after a mill has ceased crushing for any season, to the Central Board by any twenty cane-growers or by the mill suppliers’ committee constituted for that mill; and ( b ) Upon being satisfied that the time taken by the owner of that mill to crush sugar-cane equal to the quantity thereof grown upon all lands assigned to that mill as determined under subsection two of section six or as agreed under section 25 a of this Act in respect of the crushing season in question was unduly long, and that cane-growers were economically prejudiced by that undue length, the Central Board may change by increasing by such amount as it deems just the base price fixed by the award if, but only if, the Central Board is further satisfied that the undue length of the time in question 443

444 SUGAR—SUPREME COURT. Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act. 3 E liz . II. No. 30, 1954. was occasioned by acts or omissions of, or other circumstances within the control of, the owner of that mill and that the owner should justly bear the economic loss thereby occasioned.” ; and (iv.) By adding to the first paragraph of subsection eight the words “ and if, in respect of the season in question, an additional quantity of sugar-cane has been determined in his case under section 6 b of this Act, that additional quantity SUPREME COURT. (1) Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1954 3 Eliz. II. No. 30 (2) Supreme Court Acts Amendment Act of 1955 4 Eliz. II. No. 19 3 Enz. II. No. 30. T he L egal P ractitioners A cts A mendment A ct of 1954. An Act to Amend “The Legal Practitioners Acts, 1881 to 1947,” in certain particulars. [A ssented to 28 th O ctober , 1954.] E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, B by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— Short title. Principal Act. Collective title. 1. (1.) This Act may be cited as “ The Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1954.” (2.) *“ The Legal Practitioners Acts, 1881 to 1947,” are in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3.) The Principal Act and this Act may be collectivelv cited as “ The Legal Practitioners Acts, 1881 to 1954.” ' Restriction 2. Section two of f“ The Legal Practitioners Act aodnmission Amendment Act of 1938,” shall not apply with respect to practise to a person who before the first day of January, one acsonaveyancer thousand nine hundred and forty, had passed the not to apply examinations prescribed by the rules relating to the cinasceesr. tain admission of conveyancers of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Such a person who is of good fame, integrity and character and who is not disqualified or suspended from practising in or before any Court in the British * 45 V. No. 5 and amending Acts, t 2 G. 6 No. 20.